[X4U] Time Machine

[Brett Conlon]

Unless the part of the drive that contained important information  
about the backed up files became inaccessible/corrupted....

But a thought worthy of further investigation nonetheless.

Coj


On 08/11/2007, at 12:29 PM, Jim Robertson wrote:

> On 11/7/07 3:21 PM, "Robert Ameeti" <Robert at Ameeti.net> wrote:
>
>> Time Machine has to get a good read before it can do a write.
>
> I'm curious. The original poster didn't know his internal drive was  
> bad,
> which means it apparently wasn't having frequent problems in  
> ordinary use.
> If there were FREQUENT problems, wouldn't they be apparent to a
> well-designed backup utility; i.e., shouldn't it verify its reads/ 
> writes as
> it does its job?
>
> If I read the original poster's original report correctly, Time  
> Machine
> didn't complain at all while filling up 43 gigabytes of his backup  
> disk, but
> then had nothing available for him when he tried to find either a  
> single
> file or anything at all.
>
> I wouldn't be happy about that if I'd paid for the backup software!
>
> Jim Robertson
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